Who is Ted Marmor?
Ted Marmor is a Yale University Professor Emeritus in the Schools of Management and Law and the Department of Political Science in New Haven, Connecticut. He is the author of The Politics of Medicare, 2d ed. (Aldine de Gruyter, 2000). A scholar of the modern welfare state's political disputes, Marmor began his public career as a special assistant t...
Who are the two figures in health care policy analysis?
Two towering figures in the field of health care policy analysis, Theodore R. Marmor and Rudolf Klein, reflect on a lifetime of thought in this wide-ranging collection of essays published in the wake of President Obama's health care reform. Presented as a kind of dialogue between the two, the book offers their recent writings on the future of Medic...
What is the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 28.4 (2003)?
Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 28.4 (2003) 747-755 This review appraises an ambitious project of the European Observatory on Health Care Systems (the Observa tory) of the World Health Organization (WHO) to compare health systems . The project consists of a series of booklets providing information about health care systems and health care...
What is the book "Health Reform" about?
This book offers a timely account of health reform struggles in developed democracies. The editors, leading experts in the field, have brought together a group of distinguished scholars to explore the ambitions and realities of health care regulation, financing, and delivery across countries. These wide-ranging essays cover policy debates and refor...
What is social insurance?
Social insurance, like commercial insurance, is about protection against financial risk. In the United States, Medicare and the Social Security Administration's programs for retirement, disability, worker's compensation, and worker's life insurance have become dominant features of American public policy, amounting to more than 41 percent of the fed...
Is there a goal to control the cost of medical care?
Controlling the costs of medical care has long been an elusive goal in U. S. health policy. This article examines the options for health care cost control under the Obama administration. The authors argue that the administration's approach to health reform offers some potential for cost control but also embraces many strategies that are not likely...
Is it fashionable to pay physicians to hit performance targets?
Paying physicians to hit performance targets is becoming increasingly fashionable, as evidenced by the growing number of "pay-for-performance" programs in the Unit ed States and beyond. This article compares pay-for-performance initiatives in two nations--the United Kingdom and the United States. It pays particular attention to the context in which...
